Alicia Carroll

Research Areas:
Alicia Carroll has been teaching in Boston Public Schools since 1997. Alicia was a founding teacher with Deborah Meier of the Mission Hill School in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and has most recently been teaching kindergarten at the Young Achievers Science and Math School in Jamaica Plain. She is an African-American woman with experience living in an Islamic country and traveling in the Middle East and China. She has developed and published thematic curriculum units on “Young Children Learning About Ancient China Through Archeology, Ancient Nubia and Egypt”, and “Learning to Read Nature’s Book,” an interdisciplinary project-based unit through the study of the environment and social justice (2005, co-authored with Bisse Bowman).

Activities & Honors:
Alicia received the Boston Superintendent’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002. In 2004, she was 2004 Fulbright Scholar to Kenya and Tanzania, received Fund for Teachers grant with 2 colleagues for research in those countries. In 2005, Alicia was selected for “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.” She is a member of the K-8 Social Studies Curriculum Design committee and the steering committee for the Antioch College-sponsored Community-based School Environmental Education Project (CO-SEED) at the Young Achievers School, and serves on the Educational Advisory Board at Wheelock College.

Current Project:
• Alicia is currently continuing work with a colleague on the research and writing of a children’s book titled “Malindi’s Journey,” the story of a giraffe brought by African ambassadors brought to China with the treasure ships of Zheng He, the Chinese Muslim explorer of the 15th century.